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Truth: no-one really cares about your code

We publish code so others can see it, the lazy and the productive.

Lazy people do not prosper, so don't waste your energy thinking about them.

Why do you want to publish yours, just as a portfolio? Then make a portfolio.





See I see this a different way.

People only read your code when something is wrong, which means they’re already annoyed before they get to your bit and if your bit is also annoying you’re going to either hear about it or get frozen out because if it.

This is at least 4x more true of tests. I’ve witnessed too many PRs where obvious problems in the tests get missed and are then found during the RCA that covers the outage the shitty tests didn’t prevent. Trying to fix a bug in someone else’s code and discovering just how terrible they are at writing tests is salt in the wounds.


Do you see no value in publishing the code behind items in your portfolio?



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